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Page 1 of 11913 · PDF PAGE 11
…WHICH LED UP ΤΟ ΤΗΕΜ ALTHOUGH the Sovereign Grand Master General departed this life on March 20, 1913, no official notice of the fact was sent out by the senior active officer, the Grand Chancellor General; but a few days after he had received the summons issued in default of such action by the Acting Sovereign Grand Master General, he sent another summons couched in similar terms, calling a special Convocation at Manchester fer 4 p.m., June 28, 1913. This was illegal for two reasons : First, because Article XI of the Constitution provides that t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 22
…e, the defendant ought to be compelled‘to give them up to the plaintiff or to such other person as the Court may think fit. The plaintiff sent a notice on the 11th July demanding that the boys should be brought back to India and replaced under the guardianship and custody of the plaintiff. The plaintiff submits that he had no authority and could not have dele- gated-his parental rights to the defendant. Even assuming, however, that he could do so he was at liberty to revoke it at any time, especially with a view to promote the moral welfare of t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 18
…ed to keep the boys With Mr. Leadbeater at ‘Ootaca- mund preparatory to their initiation. On the plaintiff’s objection the boys were not sent to Ootacamund. The plaintiff met the defendant in Benares in December 1911 and insisted on an absolute separation of the boys from Mr. Leadbeater. But for the first time, to the plaintiff’s great surprise, the defendant refused to adOpt any such course, and alleged that the bOys and Leadbeater had lived together 'for several lives past, and that Leadbeater was an Arhat or Saint, “who is on the "verge of di…
1913 · PDF PAGE 8
The brethren present having proved their right to sit, speak and vote, Brother Quilliam called the Convocation to order, and called upon Brother Crowley to read the summons, a copy of which is here appended. This was done. Brother Crowley remarked that no written protest against the present Convocation had been received from any Prince Patriarch, and that it might therefore be taken that no question could hereafter be raised as to the legality of the Convocation. Brother Crowley proposed, and Bro. Theodor Reuss seconded, that Bro. Henry Meyer t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 19
…ce that Leadbeater was not guilty of the act complained of, and had a statement from her attendant, Luxman, recorded to that effect, and sent a copy of the same to the plaintiff. The plaintiff, on perusing this, wrote two letters to the defendant on the 7th and 15th February 1912, pointing out that even according to' the statement aforesaid it was clear that Mr. Leadbeater was seen half dressed in her room with Krishna— murti. Before these letters reached the defendant she wrote a letter to the plaintiff on February 7, 1912, from on board steam…